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Former Governor Holden asked for a stay in this week’s execution

A former Missouri Democrat Governor tries to stay the executioner’s hand. Bob Holden asked Governor Mike Parson to stop Ernest Lee Johnson’s execution …      Johnson was sentenced to death for killing three Casey’s General Store employees in Columbia in 1994. Holden okayed 15 – executions during his term, including that …

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Johnson execution will move ahead tonight

Will the Governor spare a Mid – Missouri man who faces lethal injection tonight (Tues)? Ernest Lee Johnson has spent decades on death row after being convicted of killing three victims in a Columbia convenience store. Jefferson City’s Kevin Green spent 16 – years in San Quentin after being wrongly …

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Woman now charged in summer church break in and vandalsim

KMIZ — A Cole County prosecutor has charged a woman after she allegedly broke into a church, stole money, a musical instrument and a computer then set a cross on fire on June 1. Anne-Marie Mullins is charged with second-degree arson, second-degree burglary, stealing, first-degree property damage, tampering with physical …

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JCMO decides to tear down old houses

KMIZ — The Jefferson City Council voted Monday to give a contract to demolish four “dangerous” buildings, including some in the East Capitol Avenue area. Council members voted unanimously to pass the bill. The city will demolish all properties at 410 E. Hess Way, 320 E. Miller St., 417 E. …

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JCMO to lose Best Buy

One of the largest stores on heavily-traveled Missouri Boulevard in Jefferson City will be closing at the end of the month. Best Buy’s final day of business will be October 30, a Saturday. Company spokesman Kevin Flanagan says that the closure is part of their regular and ongoing review process …

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Testing the Senate waters

Is Missouri Congressman Jason Smith ready to throw his hat in the ring for Roy Blunt’s U-S Senate seat? He sure sounds like it …       Smith met with Donald Trump back in May and earlier held a fundraiser at the former president’s Mar-A-Lago resort. Already Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, …

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Victims aren’t cooperating after a fight in downtown JCMO

Jefferson City Police are requesting your help in solving a weekend fight that involved firearms and several people covered in blood. Police say the incident late Saturday night on Commercial Way. When they arrived, they found a 20-year-old lying in the roadway from multiple stab wounds. He was unable to …

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